HARDtalk - 05/12/2007

International efforts to avert a political crisis in Kosovo appear to have failed. Talks on the disputed Serbian province end in less than a week when Albanian leaders are expected to declare independence. Serbia has threatened to block the move by all possible means. Lord Ashdown spent four years as the international community's high representative in Bosnia. Stephen Sackur asks if we are on the brink of another Balkan conflict.